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Australian Power Company to Reopen Coal Power Plant to Mine Bitcoin

Rick Delafont
Rick Delafont
1 year ago
2 mins read

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An Australian power company have signed a contract with a cryptocurrency mining firm to provide them with cheap off-grid power. The IOT Group will be building a digital currency mining hub that’s actually inside a disused coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley region.

Off Grid Power Will Allow the IOT Group to Compete With Global Miners

Typically, cryptocurrency mining operations happen in places where it’s cold and power is cheap. Locations like Siberia, Iceland, and Canada are often touted as the planet’s best. On paper, it seems as if setting up a mining facility in Australia would be a spectacularly bad move. It’s not cold there and the electricity is expensive.

However, in what represents a historic deal, the mining company, the IOT Group, have signed a contract with Hunter Energy to provide them electricity off-grid. This will mean huge savings since the power will be sold at wholesale prices. Australian news publication, The Age, reported a statement made by the company:

“The average consumer pays around 28 cents per kilowatt-hour, with what IOT are doing its pre-grid [price] is 8 cents and will be 5 cents at night time.”

The rationale behind providing the cheap energy is to encourage cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation in Australia. Typically, companies have avoided the nation because of the high price of electricity. However, deals such as the one between the IOT Group and Hunter Energy are hoping to make it a more attractive location for startups in the space. The executive director of the first beneficiary of the rock bottom power is very optimistic about the development. Sean Neylon explained:

“With these current prices, by having a blockchain application centre behind the grid offers cheaper power. It offers the potential to create a new Silicon Valley in Australia.”

Since the rumours of a crackdown on mining operations in China earlier this year, operations have sprung up all over the world. Typically, they have appeared in locations that offer cheap energy, as well as a cold climate to help cool the high powered hardware. Chinese used to represent around 70% of the total mining power. This is anything but desirable for systems such as Bitcoin that purport to be decentralised. With developments such as the Australian one, along with nations Iceland and Canada harnessing natural energy to generate power to put towards crypto mining operations, the distribution of hashing power is much more widespread. This can only be a good thing for Bitcoin and other true blockchain projects.
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Rick Delafont
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Based in Europe, Rick has written about the cryptocurrency industry since 2016. He was first drawn to Bitcoin as a means of payment but quickly became fascinated by its wider potential implications. His interests lie in the political, economic, and social impact of the unfolding digital asset revolution.

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  1. Paul Bolwell says:
    7 years ago

    Who the hell writes this garbage.

    I can tell you 100% that Australia is not building coal power plants to power Bitcoin mining.
    Australia
    power problem has 0% to do with Bitcoin mining and 100% to do with
    Governments inability to provide Australians with the power needed to
    power the country.
    This article is 100% bullshit and made up.

    The
    Australian government is so focused on providing Australians with
    mediocre “green energy” they have failed to provide the fundamental
    basics of an energy economy. They waste so much money on green energy
    subsidies for green energy providers that it is not practical from a
    business point of view to run fossil fuel power generation.

    The fact that green energy cannot sustain a country is the reason if they do infact reopen coal/gas power plants they recently closed.
    It
    has backfired on them hard while exporting all our fossil fuels for
    quick money overseas. Australia buys back our fossil fuels from export
    companies for INFLATED prices. It is embarrassing how the Australian
    Government has screwed Australians.

    Ignore this article it is bullshit.

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  1. Paul Bolwell says:
    7 years ago

    Who the hell writes this garbage.

    I can tell you 100% that Australia is not building coal power plants to power Bitcoin mining.
    Australia
    power problem has 0% to do with Bitcoin mining and 100% to do with
    Governments inability to provide Australians with the power needed to
    power the country.
    This article is 100% bullshit and made up.

    The
    Australian government is so focused on providing Australians with
    mediocre “green energy” they have failed to provide the fundamental
    basics of an energy economy. They waste so much money on green energy
    subsidies for green energy providers that it is not practical from a
    business point of view to run fossil fuel power generation.

    The fact that green energy cannot sustain a country is the reason if they do infact reopen coal/gas power plants they recently closed.
    It
    has backfired on them hard while exporting all our fossil fuels for
    quick money overseas. Australia buys back our fossil fuels from export
    companies for INFLATED prices. It is embarrassing how the Australian
    Government has screwed Australians.

    Ignore this article it is bullshit.

    Reply

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